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All references must be cited by authors and dates within the text. e.g., It is well known that nitrogen retained in sediment could be released into overlying water to supply nutrients to aquatic ecosystems (Fillos and Swanson, 1975; Zong, 1993).
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Journal articles:
La France, P., and Grasso, D. (1995). Trajectory modeling of non-brownian particle flotation using an extended Derjagain-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek approach. Environ. Sci. Technol. 29, 1346.
Weber, W.J., Jr., and DiGiano, F.A. (1996). Process Dynamics in Environmental Systems. New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Book Chapters:
Sposito, G. (1993). Surface complexion of metals by natural colloids. In J.A. Marinsky and Y. Marcus, Eds., Ion Exchange and Solvent Extraction. New York: Marcel Dekker, Inc., p. 211.
Notenboom, G.J., Jacobs, J.C., van Kempen, R., and van Loosdrecht, M.C.M. (2002). High rate treatment with SHARON process of waste water from solid waste digestion. Presented at the 3rd International IWA-Symposium on Anaerobic Digestion of Solid Wastes, Munich/Garching, Germany, September 18–20.
Scacheri, P., Crabtree, J., Kennedy, A., Swain, G., Ward, J., Marx, S., Spiegel, A., and Collins, F. (2006). V804 RET mutation in MEN2A: First report. J. Int. Med. 255, 712 (abstract).
National Research Council (NRC). (2003). Bioavailability of Contaminants in Soils and Sediments: Processes, Tools, and Applications. Washington, DC: National Academies Press. Available at: www.nap.edu/openbook.php?isbn=0309086256
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We'd love to give you a pass, but every expert we polled said that exercise is nature's Midol. You break a sweat and you get a rush of happy-making endorphins--key at that time of the month when they're naturally at their lowest levels, says Pinar Kodaman, M.D., assistant professor of medicine at Yale University. Those same endorphins dull the effects of prostaglandins, chemicals that trigger cramps, which means any workout you do--run, pilates, boot camp--is like popping a painkiller. If you need insta-relief before you can even think about the gym, try this prep pose from Chicago yogi Allison English.
The Move: Legs Up the Wall
Lie faceup with legs extended up wall, feet flexed, arms at sides. Place rolled towel under hips. Hold 3 minutes.
Why It Works:
- Pressing into the towel helps release tension in the lower back.
- Your pelvis is tilted up, changing circulation and easing cramps.
Add a Cool Mind Trick:
Repeat a word that sums up how you want to feel post-workout (i.e., better!); it will help convince you to get moving.
Source: Richard Kinnier, Ph.D., psychology professor at Arizona State University in Tempe
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The way Gov. Brown tells it, the story of the state's three competing tax plans resembles the tale of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.
Brown's argument: that the competing measures -- a permanent income tax hike on millionaires sponsored by unions and progressives, and a 12-year- temporary income hike on everyone sponsored by a wealthy civil rights attorney -- don't fit Calfornia. They won't help fix the budget.
No surprise that in his story line the only one that is just is the one Brown himself has proposed.
When it comes to the two competing measures, Brown is basically right.
Both measures, for the most part, put the money they raise in new budget boxes where they can't be directly swallowed up by the convoluted existing budget system.
In that way, they don't much help close the budget deficit or square the state's books.
The trouble for Brown is that his own criticism exposes the problems and limits of his own initiative--and indeed his entire approach to the budget.
His initiative, because it is based on small, temporary, tax increases, doesn't do much for the budget deficit long-term.
In the short term, its chief virtue is that fits with his existing budget plans, which include a "realignment" of some government services from the state to the locals.
In effect, Brown's argument is that his tax proposal fits his budget, and the others don't.
This is a very circular argument. It's not a convincing argument, because Brown's budget strategy is an unconvincing one.
Essentially, Brown's approach has been to make cuts -- including destructive cuts to higher education, which is the state's competitive engine -- and then use billions in overly optimistic revenue assumptions to suggest he's making budget progress.
Part of the game plan also is to call for voter-approved tax hikes while blaming others for not supporting him (Republicans who wouldn't vote for taxes, or Democrats who want different taxes).
What Brown doesn't do, in his initiative or his governance is fix the budget system itself, and it's the system that keeps driving up spending mandates while ratcheting down revenue.
Indeed, Brown, in going after the competing measures, is effectively a defender of the system.
The governor told the San Francisco Chronicle that the competing measures failed to consider Prop 98 -- the voter-approved formula for calculating K-14 education spending.
Then in the very same interview, Brown accused the competing initiatives of engaging in "ballot-box budgeting."
Yes, Prop 98 is exactly what ballot-box budgeting is. So Brown is in one breath blames the competing intiiatives of doing the bad thing -- ballot box budgeting -- that breaks the budget, and then accuses the competing measures of not working working with the ballot-box budgeting regime that is central to the broken budget system.
It's enough to make your head explode.
It's also a reminder that none of these measures, whatever their advantages and disadvantages, do much of anything to fix the broken system that has made California ungovernable.
And that's no fairy tale.
Let us know what you think. Comment below, send us your thoughts via Twitter @PropZero or add your comment to our Facebook page.


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News Archives - 2005
Augsburg Honors Program presents "Four Vignettes: Exploring the Minds of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud"
Exactly what place do Sigmund Freud and C.S. Lewis' arguments on God, happiness, and the pursuit of Truth hold for humankind in the twentieth century? The questions have been debated time and time again, but perhapsnever in such a way as the first-year Augsburg College Honors students will utilize come this Saturday evening.
Early in September, the first-year honors students embarked on a rather daunting journey in their Hon 120 course, "The Scholar Citizen". The challenge? To produce and perform four student-written vignettes that explore God, love, sex, and the meaning of life through the dissenting opinions of C.S. Lewis and Sigmund Freud.
In less than two months, meeting a mere one time a week, the students (under the guidance of Augsburg Honors graduate Erica Huls) have answered this challenge. And while one may not leave the performance with specific answers to these fundamental philosophical problems of life, the audience member is guaranteed an evening of entertainment and a rather unique glimpse into Lewis and Freud's assessment of the human predicament in an eloquent and, at times, comical manner.
The performance is a one-time-only event you will not want to miss starting at 7 p.m. Saturday, November 19th in Sateren Auditorium.
There will be a short reception following the performance.
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This has been a bittersweet decision, as I work with the greatest colleagues and students, but to understand my decision, you have to know me and the many interests I have.
2. Photography has been an important part of my life since high school.(Thank you, Mr. Reilly) I took photos for my high school yearbook and developed them in my darkroom at home. When digital photography came about, I immersed myself in Adobe Photoshop®, and began learning how to retouch and restore old photographs. This came in very handy when I needed to create a website for the school's media center. I learned basic HTML and was off and running. I'm proud to say that I've written more pathfinders than any other high school on the web. (Let me know if you have surpassed 133!) I then learned Adobe InDesign® and started designing newsletters, business cards, websites and the school newspaper. Here are some samples of my work:
4. I'm not sure if I want to remain in New Jersey. Our property taxes are one of the highest in the United States. The air pollution is bad. My door is open to change. Where? I don't know right now, but it's definitely on the table.
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New deal for Monk
Swansea have secured the future of captain Garry Monk after the defender signed a new three-year contract at the Liberty Stadium.
Swansea have secured the future of captain Garry Monk after the defender signed a new three-year contract at the Liberty Stadium.
Monk joined the Swans seven years ago from Barnsley, and has played in all four divisions for the club on their journey from League Two to the Premier League.
Monk told the club website, www.swanseacity.net: "It's a big thing for me to sign a contract that will take me up to my 10th year."
He added: "It's something I am very proud of, my family is proud of, and I've worked hard for it.
"It's a great feeling knowing I can represent the club another three years at least."
The 32-year-old's new deal will keep him with the club until the end of the 2013/14 season, although the former Southampton man has been bedeviled by injuries over the last two seasons.
He recovered from a knee injury in time to lead the Swans to play-off glory at Wembley, and is hopeful of overcoming a foot problem to lead Brendan Rodgers' side in their Premier League opener at Manchester City on Monday.
He added: "Lifting the trophy at Wembley was massive and one of the biggest honours I can have, but every year has been brilliant and filled me with pride. This season will be no different.
"Hopefully I will be back to full fitness as soon as possible. To lead the boys out at Manchester City would be a very proud moment for me.
"We have talked about not just turning up and realising what it's all about after five or six games. We want to be ready from the off. We are playing against fantastic players and fantastic teams, but we have a good squad here and we want to impose our game on the opposition and see how they deal with it."


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In the global interest
As equities flail, some investors are planting their cash in inflation-linked bonds.
As equities flail, some investors are planting their cash in inflation-linked bonds. PIMCO boss Bill Gross has cult status on global bond markets. So when he recently declared that "the cult of equity may be dying, but the cult of inflation may only have just begun", you could almost hear the market standing to attention.As the European debt crisis grinds on and the US economy struggles to gain traction, speculation grows that Europe and the US may try to inflate their way out of trouble by printing money.If that happens, Australia is not immune to the fallout.For this reason, inflation-linked bonds are experiencing a surge in interest.Vanguard and NAB-owned Antares Capital have launched bond funds and iShares has a new exchange-traded fund, all specialising in Australian government inflation-linked bonds."Inflation-linked bonds are the only direct hedge to inflation because they are linked to the CPI [consumer price index]," a research director at FIIG, Elizabeth Moran, says.Investors traditionally rely on shares and property to outrun inflation, but their returns aren't directly linked.What's more, the sluggish global economy indicates both could be set for a prolonged period of low growth.Investors have reacted by switching into term deposits and fixed-interest bonds, but these would also suffer if inflation is let out of the bag.The purchasing power of cash is eroded by inflation, so investors demand higher interest rates to compensate.When this happens, money locked away in existing term deposits and fixed-interest securities decreases in value and bond prices fall.Unlike classic fixed-interest bonds, the face value of an inflation-linked bond and the interest rate it pays are adjusted quarterly for inflation in line with the CPI. You can buy and sell the bonds on the open market, but if you hold them to maturity the issuer repays the inflation-adjusted face value.Strong foreign demand for Australian government inflation-linked bonds means they are trading at a premium to face value (see table)."Australian government issuances are one of the few remaining triple-A issues of debt in the world," the managing director of iShares, Mark Oliver, says.By contrast, some high-quality corporate issues are trading at a discount because the market has been betting on low inflation continuing (see box, above).If you think inflation is a risk, Moran says the discounts on some corporate bonds offer the potential to make a strong capital gain as well as reap the benefit of an income stream that is guaranteed to rise with inflation.Investors need a minimum of $50,000 to buy bond issues direct, and unlisted managed funds often have a high minimum investment, with few exceptions. You need a minimum $20,000 to invest in the Aberdeen Inflation Linked Bond Fund and $10,000 for the Antares fund (or $1000 with a regular savings plan).The simplest and cheapest exposure is the iShares UBS Government Inflation exchange-traded fund.It can be bought and sold on the ASX in minimum lots of one unit, currently priced at about $1.05. Management fees are 0.26 per cent.Oliver says the fund only invests in Australian government (not corporate) issues because they are the highest quality, as well as being the most liquid and tradeable.How the bonds workInflation-linked bonds are issued locally by the federal and state governments and large companies.Most have long-dated maturities suited to long-term investors as a hedge against inflation.To explain how they work, the research director of FIIG Securities, Elizabeth Moran, uses the example of the Sydney Airport issue, which matures in 2030.The bonds were originally issued at a face value of $100. By last week, a $100,000 parcel of bonds had a face value of $117,300 after taking into account quarterly adjustments for inflation.If the bonds matured last week, that's what you would have been paid. But the market price last week was $89,204 (the capital value), a discount of $28,096.But the bond price is only part of the total return. The coupon, or interest rate, on the bonds is 3.12 per cent. If you bought them last week, the running yield on the discounted purchase price was 4.1 per cent plus inflation.Using estimated inflation of 2.5 per cent, the yield to maturity is estimated at 7.05 per cent.Inflation-linked bonds are more expensive than fixed-interest bonds because the capital value and interest have the potential to rise over time. But if inflation falls, you are better off in a traditional fixed-interest bond.With inflation at just 1.2 per cent at the end of June, there is limited downside risk but plenty of scope for a rise in the future.


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All of our vehicle inspection services are carried out by expert trained and approved technicians.
Body / Electrical equipment
Lighting system is checked
Instrument panel, dashboard illumination, and heater blower fan are checked
Horn, headlight flasher and hazard warning system are checked
Condition of seat belt, function of automatic-locking retractor, belt lock and belt buckle are checked
Acid level and state-of-charge in battery are checked and charged if required**
Microfilter or activated charcoal filter** are replaced
Engine compartment
Test with diagnostic system is performed to determine if any faults had been automatically recorded by the vehicle
Motor oil and oil filter are removed and replaced with new oil and filter
Coolant levels are checked; when refilled, concentration of fluid is checked
At the corresponding interval coolant is changed (every four years at the latest), fluid is added as needed**
Service interval indicator is reset according to factory specifications
Fluid level and antifreeze additive in windscreen washer fluid reservoir are checked and topped up if needed
Steering fluid reservoir is checked and fluid is topped up if needed
At the corresponding interval brake fluid is replaced (every two years at the latest)**
The overall thickness of front and rear disc brake pads is checked using a special tool. If a replacement is necessary: surfaces are checked, brake pad contact points in callipers and brake shafts are cleaned. If replacement in the rear is necessary: parking brake linings are checked. Wheel centring hubs on light-alloy wheels are greased.**
Steering system is checked for play, leakage, damage and wear
Undercarriage and body including all visible parts are checked for damage, leakage, corrosion
Brake system cables and connections are checked for leaks, damage and correct positioning
Functionality of parking brake is checked and adjusted where needed according to regulations
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Protein is necessary to help the body make new cells and to repair cell damage. While protein need increases during times of growth and development (youth and pregnancy), protein is also important during other times of physical change such as weight loss and increased exercise. Consuming adequate protein will ensure that you maintain and build muscle mass as your body sheds fat.
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According to the Institute of Medicine, the recommended protein intake for healthy adult men and women is 10 to 35 percent of total daily calorie intake. The recommendation can be met with about two to three servings of protein-rich foods each day. This range allows you to experiment with different levels of protein to find the right amount that fits into your healthy eating style while still meeting your body's protein needs.
Protein Needs of Athletes
The harder your body works, the greater your protein need and the more specific your protein recommendation. The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) estimates that endurance and strength trained athletes need 1.2 to 1.7 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight. The ACSM also states that this recommendation can be met through dietary choices without the use of protein or amino acid supplementation. If you begin training for an athletic event and move from an average exerciser to an athlete, it's important to pay close attention to protein intake and to add more protein-rich foods to your eating plan.
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Research shows that the average adult has little trouble getting the recommended amount of protein each day. But getting enough protein doesn't always mean that you are getting quality protein. Burgers and deep fried chicken fingers provide plenty of protein, but they also contain unhealthy amounts of saturated fat and sodium. Protein-rich foods with heart-healthy fat, fiber, vitamins, and minerals will benefit your health while providing the protein that your body needs. Healthier protein options include beans, nuts, seeds, whole grains, low-fat dairy, grass-fed beef, bison, poultry, and fish.


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McDonald's, Chipotle, Subway health closures | News
Washington, DC (WUSA9) - A DC area McDonald's, Chipotle and Subway were closed by health inspectors for "health hazards;" plus, other restaurants were cited for rodent issues. These issues and more top this weeks WUSA9 Restaurant Alert.
Updated: To see a photo gallery with hundreds of Washington area restaurant closures since 2012 click here.
Inspectors temporarily closed: McDonald's, 601 F Street, NW, DC, Chipotle, 601 F Street, NW, DC; Axum, 1934 9th Street, NW, DC; Subway, 1776 G Street NW, DC; Horace and Dickie's, 6912 4th Street NW, DC.
To know about restaurant closure orders first, follow@russptacek on Twitter, or like Russ Ptacek on Facebook.
All the restaurants have since passed re-inspection are back in business.
Chinatown McDonald's & Chipotle closure
Inspectors closed the Chinatown McDonald's and Chipotle, both on F Street, NW, the same day for inadequate hot water in their shared restrooms.
McDonald's management wouldn't talk to us but in a statement said, it was "unexpected" and a repair was made to a faulty valve.
At Chipotle, management said the restaurant had hot water everywhere else, except in their golden arches of shared toilets.
In a statement, Chipotle said, "The hot water in Chipotle kitchen was never compromised."
When WUSA9's Russ Ptacek went back to that no hot water Chipotle/McDonald's shared bathroom, we checked the hot water and it met DC's required 110 degree mark.
Hot water is one of the most common closure violations. If you go into a bathroom and the hot water isn't warm enough that you would consider taking a bath in it, it probably isn't hot enough to meet health safety standards.
On G Street, NW, inspectors closed Subway citing 4 violations including no one certified in food safety management but when we were there, Subway had a certified food safety manager on duty.
The manager we spoke with declined our request to look around for more improvements.
Horace & Dickie's suspension
Inspectors closed Horace and Dickies at 4th and Cedar NW, citing 7 violations including mice feces in a storage room.
A worker at Horace and Dickie's asked us to wait outside. We waited for ten minutes in the cold, but no one ever came back.
U St. Corridor Ethiopian Axum "health hazard"
On 9th street NW, inspectors closed Axum Ethiopian Restaurant citing 28 violations including rat droppings and a dead rat next to the dumpster
When we visited, Axum was still under a suspension order but it did pass a re-inspection and reopened.


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According to Automotive News, Chrysler is continuing their effort to be everyone's favorite privately-held whipping boy by raising prices 2% for their remaining inventory of 2008 models and into the 2009 model year.
Jim Press, Chrysler co-president, made the announcement to dealers in a webcast earlier today. He cited increasing commodity prices, including steel. In addition, Chrysler spokesman Stuart Schorr said: "The average 2 percent increase brings total model year price increases in line with key competitors. It does not affect vehicles already in dealer inventory. Incentives would not be changed."
What this means is that Chrysler is still eating the majority of the costs associated with rising commodity prices. Numbers we've seen tell us the automakers are spending an extra $500 per vehicle in steel costs alone. One can assume other raw materials and supplier parts are also adding to costs so somehow, we don't think 2% quite makes up for that on the majority of Chrysler's current vehicle mix. [Automotive News (sub. req.)]


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It has been two years since my brother's death. I still cry and think of him everyday. I wish he never washed the X-trail. :( But things happen. I have good memories of him. That's enough. I MISS YOU.
Franco and I are here in Manila. Zia and Mom are in Quezon.
Over YM:
Zia Lim: i miss you, achi
Zia Lim: i know you miss me too
Zia Lim: don't ya?
Trizia Lim: i miss you, shobs!
Trizia Lim: seriously
Zia Lim: oh i know
Zia Lim: OH YOUUU
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Never forget. Everyday.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
It has been two years since my brother's death. I still cry and think of him everyday. I wish he never washed the X-trail. :( But things happen. I have good memories of him. That's enough. I MISS YOU.
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Friday, February 27, 2009
Sarcasm is the key. HA!
Eto nalang, kinilig si Mrs. Annie Lim kay Matt. Ha ha ha! Cute ni Annie Lim!
As much as I want to upload photos here and post an update, I am stuck with IPE and do not want to do anything else but stare at my laptop.
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009
Franco, my brother, asked me to print his monologue for him. Read and enjoy:
I remember what my wife told me. "If I want to be a good father, I shouldn't be my father" she was right because my father gave me a hard time growing up.
I remember the time when my 4-year old son was trying to get up and walk, he held my hand, and I let go as soon as he stood up. But after a few steps he fell, I picked him up as soon as he was about to cry. As time passed by, my son was at his teenage years—full of curiosity and deceit. He got addicted to all kinds of drugs and other vices, that's when I realized that he fell again just like before. So I picked him up. Took him to rehab and let go once more. By the time he graduated college, I thought my role as a father is done. He was planning to have a family of his own because he has a stable job. I visited him at work one time; because I was driving near by. As I got to where he was working, there was an ambulance singing in front of me. I rushed to look for my son. I saw him lifelessly on the ground. I tried to pick him up one last time. I know I'm old but my hands are strong as ever. But this time I didn't let go.... He was the one who did. I lay
flat on the ground myself, weeping. My tears blinded my eyes as I saw a hand reaching out to me. It was my father's hand. Picking me up once more.
Photo by: melaniumom
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009
I've been hunting for IPE topics for hours now. And I came up with this one: role of regional trade agreements on negotiations under the Doha declaration. Does this even make sense? FML: I found an IPE topic (my ticket to taking the final exam) only to find out (from Danie Thomas) that a) WTO topics are not allowed anymore and b) one of my blockmates might be working on the same topic, so fuck my life. At least, I wouldn't be asked to fuck a tree.
I have stuff to work on besides hunting for, what might be considered as, an "impossible dream". I was given THE brown envelope for the Summer Internship Program of Political Economy. Oh, joy. I passed my CV and the institute that was in accordance to my preferences is the Institute of Popular Democracy in Teacher's Village. Three more requirements to pass, an interview, then comes the moment of truth. I'm losing hope in facing Pol.Eco. every minute of the day but I hope they accept me. At least there would be some direction in my life.
I bought two cans of beer awhile ago only to find out that my bestfriend would be drinking them tomorrow night.
Untouched by the Veronicas isn't so bad! Thanks little christine!
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Monday, February 23, 2009
I have been updating my iPod for hours now. Never mind school work (at least for awhile). Anyway, I've been downing (stealing from Franco's iTunes) my iPod with pop and rock.
Lady Gaga is genius. Eye Alaska rocks. Lights is okay.
Although these songs have different genres, I play them continuously as if they roll.
Eh eh (nothing else I can say) by Lady Gaga
Drive my soul by Lights
Through willows and streams by Eye Alaska
Cheerios and post some songs!
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Sunday, February 22, 2009
MY IPE topic is a DEV topic. I cannot take school anymore. So much for an update.
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Friday, February 13, 2009
Pop had Ahya D.A. when he was 17 years old. He had me when he was 20. Nothing wrong there but this one's just ridiculous! Oh, young dads.
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Back-to-Back Plays:
"Exp. Date" written by XY Pintoy; directed by Draco Moreno;
starring Trizia Lim and Patrick Mayo
"StarCatcher" written by Kinna Kwan; directed by Linus Paterno;
starring Miliza Prado and Jordan Benedicto/Mike Reyes
Feb. 16 (MON) - CAS101
Feb. 17 (TUE) - CAS104
Feb. 18 (WED) - CAS103
Feb. 19 (THU) - CAS101
*all shows start at 7:45PM
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Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Paul Abdul: "It's the end of the road. I am sorry."
Me: "But--"
Paula Abdul: "I am sorry, honey. Maybe next year--"
Me: "But-- NOOO! Please give me another chance"
Paula Abdul: "Maybe next year, you can move to America but you have to pass RM first"
(End scene)
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Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Neither is it a boy nor a girl but a kidney! Yes, a kidney.I heard over the radio (Magic) that donating a kidney could be done in a process similar to childbirth. This is not fallacious! Johnson, a 48-year-old woman has gone through this process when she donated a kidney to her niece. The effect of this would be, of course, more female kidney donors. Doctors assure donors that this process would be less and less painful as compared to the traditional and former, as donors would only incur 2 pea-sized scars under the navel and 1 down there. However, further studies and practices should be done so as to avoid the possibility of rupture of the kidneys during the operation. GALING! Click here!!! Don't you girls find it amazing how powerful we are? Vagina saves the world!
I am writing and researching about vaginas and kidneys because I am literally put ON HOLD in Research Methods.
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All I could say is EW. This is gonna be one of those blog entries that is full of loathe towards people who implicitly claim that they are as powerful as President-Elect Barack Obama and Oprah Winfrey (I extend my heartfelt apology to those who do not believe that these two should be used in the same sentence--same adjective, nonetheless. To me, both are indistinguishable!), as macho and batak as David Hasselhoff and People's Champ, Manny Pacquiao (who are two DIFFERENT people; easy to tell apart), as intelligent as Einstein, and as fashion-forward as Agyness Deyn and Happy Hippie. NO. I am not all of these, no. My point is, why pretend when you can just go with the classic HUMILITY and most importantly, STAY AT HOME, where no one can see you. I'm kidding. And mean.
My point is: act and dress accordingly. If you're Einsteins, check the date, it's 2009. My goodness!
Chill, all of you are cool so FUCK you all!
Funny, 'coz Sarah, Abby, and I were in Starbucks awhile ago--aren't we all?--talking about how important it is to remain humble and carefree.
I have no fashion sense, too but I am working on it.
AND AND AND, my Clooney Count hit 7,000! Last time I checked, it was 6,900 something which means that some people do visit my blog! Thanks! See, I entertain through the chatterbox.
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Sunday, February 01, 2009
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Boston (CNN) -- The instant Jim Asaiante heard the first explosion, he flashed back to Iraq.
"That was an IED," he said to no one in particular.
The former Army nurse fought the urge to rush toward the wounded. He knew there would be a second blast. Tending to soldiers blown up by roadside bombs had taught him that.
Asaiante paused and waited a few seconds. The ground shook again, a percussive explosion that sent more people scrambling, more smoke roiling down Boylston Street. While most ran for their lives, first responders like Asaiante swooped into action.
In the days to come, first responders would face down suspects in a massive manhunt that paralyzed a city. One officer would lose his life in a gunbattle, another would be critically wounded, while halfway across the country 10 emergency workers would be killed in a giant fertilizer plant explosion.
On Monday, Boston fell silent to mark the bombings and remember the victims. But in that moment exactly one week ago, helpers ranging from marathon volunteers to police officers to runners stopped in their tracks to help.
Asaiante had been a volunteer assigned to care for elite athletes in a tent just feet from the finish line. To him, the Boston Marathon was a rite of spring -- a way to celebrate everything great about the city.
He'd volunteered for 17 marathons starting in 1996 -- the 100th running of the iconic race. The only one he missed was in 2007, when he was working in combat hospitals in Iraq.
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Asaiante had been paired with Stephen Segatore, a nurse from Tufts Medical Center. Up to that point, the two had treated runners mostly for dehydration. A few soldiers had blisters on their feet from running in full uniform, boots and all. One elite Kenyan was too cold; they gave him warm chicken broth.
Monday had been a perfect day. Clear skies with temperatures in the 40s and 50s, a relief after record highs nearly forced a cancellation of last year's race.
At 9 a.m., the nearly 25,000 runners observed a moment of silence for 26 seconds, in honor of the 26 people killed in the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut.
By 9:17 a.m., the race had begun with wheelchair participants, followed by the elite athletes. The rest of the runners were released in waves.
Fans who had gathered along Boylston witnessed a thrilling finish, with 23-year-old Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia beating out two others in a sprint to the end. His winning time of 2 hours, 10 minutes, 22 seconds earned him the $150,000 winner's prize.
Over the next two hours, as the rest of the runners made that same glorious sprint -- the crème de la crème of marathon moments -- they were greeted by a cool sea breeze whipping down Boylston and jubilant fans rooting them on.
Near the finish line, Krystle Campbell, 29, had her eye on the race. Ever since she was a little girl, there was something about the resilience of people who huffed 26.2 miles that she found fascinating.
Ron Brassard was in the crowd, too. He'd come with his wife, daughter and others to watch a friend complete the race. They were soaking in the celebratory mood of Patriot's Day, a holiday he loved to share with family.
Less than a mile away, Horacio Hojman, the surgical director of the intensive care unit at Tufts Medical Center, was on call.
Then came the blasts. It was 2:50 p.m.
'We can't let this young girl die'
Asaiante and Segatore rushed from the medical tent to the finish line to tend to the wounded. The stench of burning flesh hung in the air. Blood pooled on the sidewalk.
People bleeding from lost limbs were already being carried toward the tent, so the two nurses stopped and headed back.
Runners were moved out of the area, and space was made for the wounded. Spanning the length of a football field, the tent was instantly turned into a massive triage center. It had 100 cots.
"No one was expecting they would have to treat trauma victims from an IED explosion," Asaiante said. "But you do what you have to do. You don't think. You just do."
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Asaiante grabbed a roll of 6-inch elastic ACE bandage and used his shears to cut off a man's jeans. The man had suffered an arterial wound to his left leg and was in danger of losing the limb.
The nurse used the bandage as a makeshift tourniquet.
In an ideal world, emergency personnel have 15 minutes to save a limb after a tourniquet is tied. Asaiante used a pen and wrote down the time on what was left of the man's jeans, so hospital staff would know how many minutes they had left when he arrived. It was shortly before 3 p.m.
The wounded were labeled by number for the ambulances -- 1, 2 and 3 -- 1 being the highest priority.
Segatore had just worked to save a man who had lost both his legs when a woman arrived in critical condition, struggling to breathe.
The father of seven children looked at her face. Her freckles, wide eyes and body type reminded him of his 19-year-old daughter.
"We can't let this young girl die," he kept thinking.
Along with a doctor and emergency medical technician, Segatore scanned her wounds, mostly on the left side of her body. One leg was twisted backwards, and she had a wound near her left hip. She had black markings on her head, possibly residue from being so close to the blast.
She had already been given several minutes of CPR by those who rushed her into the tent. Segatore offered her comforting words before taking over CPR.
I'm a nurse, he told her. You're in a tent at the finish line.
He tried to resuscitate her. They stopped CPR briefly to hook up a heart monitor. The screen showed squiggly lines, but the heart wasn't pumping blood. There was no pulse. The physician said to stop. "We knew what we had," Segatore said.
All at once, a wave of sadness and anger coursed through the three men. In exasperated unison, they shouted, "Fuck!"
"You don't expect them to die of a bomb blast in the middle of your own city," Segatore reflected.
He covered her with a blanket. Eventually, he and a National Guardsman moved her cot to a private area. They worried it might get tipped over or her blanket pulled off.
Even amid the chaos, they thought to give her dignity. "In death, we want people to be as respected as they are in life," he said. "We do that by treating them as we would want to be treated, as if they're our family members."
But there was little time to reflect. The patients kept coming, wave after wave.
Some were so stunned they couldn't speak. They would respond to questions, but their faces were covered with blank stares. Sometimes, they mouthed words but no sound came out.
One man, Ron Brassard, had blood pouring out of a leg. He screamed in pain and yelled, "I'm not going anywhere without my daughter."
He repeated it over and over and over.
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"There was an explosion at the finish line."
That was the message relayed to Dr. Horacio Hojman, the associate director of trauma and the surgical director of the intensive care unit at Tufts Medical Center.
He and his staff instantly activated the hospital's emergency response plan. Four trauma teams, each consisting of four medical staff -- an ER attendant, two residents and an intern -- scrubbed in. They quickly cleaned the emergency room, wiping everything down, mopping the linoleum floors and preparing the rooms. Patients already there were moved to other parts of the hospital.
In less than 10 minutes they were ready.
Born in Argentina, Hojman had treated patients of mass shootings and explosions in his homeland. He's lived in the United States for more than 20 years and has always preached to his staff about the need to be prepared for worst-case scenarios.
Everyone on his emergency team has gone through what he calls "the simulator" at Tufts medical school to prepare for a moment like this. It's a facility designed just like an ER to teach doctors to keep calm under pressure.
The idea, he said, is to make the training "so difficult that, by comparison, this seems to be easy."
"When we think we have these things nailed down, we train a little bit more."
Soon, ambulances were radioing in: About 20 patients were headed their way, including at least four in danger of losing limbs.
The Hollywood version of chaotic emergency rooms, Hojman said, gets it all wrong.
"This is absolutely not the way it happens in a real trauma situation."
He tells his residents to think of the movie "Apollo 13" and how calm NASA engineers remained when they were told, "Houston, we have a problem."
The emergency room, he said, is more choreographed than synchronized swimming.
A brief silence filled the ER, and then the ambulances arrived.
Staff set up four trauma bays. One doctor was in charge of assigning patients to each bay to make sure patients didn't back up.
Each patient was marked by ambulance EMTs with red, yellow or green -- red for the most critical. Patients were stripped of clothes, examined and evaluated quickly. The four critical patients were sent to emergency surgery on a separate floor to try to save their legs.
Later, Hojman would be called into surgery for a fifth patient, the weight of saving the patient's limb -- and life -- paramount.
"In every surgeon's mind," he said, "you think, 'I need to do everything possible to save this limb.' I think that we as surgeons refuse to accept failure. ... But the injuries were very, very serious."
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Another problem soon arrived -- one the simulator hadn't prepared them for. About 30 minutes after the first patients arrived, a suspicious package was found in the emergency room. An evacuation was ordered, and police swept the facility.
Patients were moved outside to the street.
Hojman and a colleague went from room to room to make sure no patients were left behind. He stopped to tell two officers near the room with the package that they should leave, too.
"If there's an explosion, there's no way you or your buddy will be able to survive," he told them.
Both gave the doctor stern looks, like he was crazy. "When I had the sense that I was probably going to get arrested," he said, "I decided to leave."
Once outside, he looked at the glass windows of the hospital's façade. He knew that in the twin embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, the worst wounds came from shards of glass.
Looking up at the building he loved, Hojman now worried that if a bomb exploded, the patients lined up outside might be wounded again -- this time by flying glass.
He ordered the patients moved to the hospital lobby. All the while, the trauma teams worked to keep everyone alive, monitoring their vital signs and making sure they remained hooked up to IVs.
The hospital went into lockdown moments after the patients filled the lobby. "That created another problem," he said. One resident physician got locked out.
"Again, it's all training. It's all focus," he said. "At the end of the day, you have to remember you're treating human beings and that's the reason we're doing it. We're not doing it for anything else."
Learning his patients' fate
Ron Brassard, 51, was missing a chunk of his left leg when he arrived at Tufts. Runners had sprinted to his side, taking off their shirts and wrapping his leg, before he reached Segatore in the medical tent, screaming for his daughter. From there, EMTs rushed him to Tufts.
Hojman's trauma team worked to save him and his limb. He was among the four patients taken to emergency surgery.
The next day, from his bedside, he recalled watching the marathon, having a good time with everyone "laughing and smiling, and then all of a sudden. ..." The first bomb, he said, went off about 10 feet away.
"It was so close that you couldn't hear after the explosion," he told CNN's Anderson Cooper, his left leg wrapped and propped up. "The noise was, I think, scarier than the blast itself because it was so loud."
Immediately after the blast, an incredible pain shot through his leg, and an unbearable thought kept going through his mind: Where is my daughter?
His wife told him their daughter, Krystara, 20, was right there, he recalled later, but at the time he couldn't hear because the blast left him briefly deaf.
He didn't look at his leg "because I knew something was wrong." He just remembers that every time he took a step there was a puddle of blood the "size of a dinner plate."
It wasn't until he made it to the hospital that he got the courage to look at his wound. "It wasn't anything fun to look at."
It was also at the hospital where he found out his daughter was alive. She had shrapnel wounds from head to toe, and her mother, Karen, had two large shrapnel pieces embedded in both of her legs. They'd been taken to Boston Medical Center.
But two of their friends suffered much worse. Sydney Corcoran -- a 17-year-old high school senior who had survived being hit by a car in 2011 -- had her legs shredded in the blast; her mother, Celeste, had both legs amputated below her knee.
Segatore, who'd heard Brassard screaming for his daughter in the medical tent, learned from the news that he and his family had survived. He was glad to know Brassard's leg was saved, too, especially at the hospital where he works.
But there's one image he can't shake -- and that's of the woman who couldn't be saved. "Her face, because I was right there over her," he said, "it's in my memory."
He had searched for identification but found nothing on her body. He's since learned that she was Krystle Campbell, one of three people killed in the attack. He recognized her photo in the news instantly because of "her big blue eyes and blue eye shadow." He wants her family to know that she didn't die alone.
Asaiante, the Iraqi war veteran, wished the terror had never struck his city, but he was proud to be able respond. "All of us found ourselves in extraordinary circumstances, and we just did what we had to do," he said.
Just like pushing through the pain of conquering the infamous Heartbreak Hill at mile 20, Bostonians are resilient and will work together to recover from the tragedy. "Push on through it," he said, "don't forget it and make a positive."
More than 260 people were treated for their wounds at hospitals. Fourteen have had limbs amputated. Authorities have said the death toll likely would have been much higher if it weren't for the actions of so many first responders.
Back near the finish line, at the foot of police barricades, a makeshift shrine sits at the corner of Boylston and Berkeley streets. Mourners come to pay their respects and leave flowers and other mementoes.
One sign carries the famous quote of childhood TV show icon Mr. Rogers: "When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.' "
Last Monday, the helpers sprang forward.
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Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 1:09 AM
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87 percent of Palo Alto's low-income grads go to college
Original post made on Apr 25, 2012
Read the full story here Web Link posted Wednesday, April 25, 2012, 1:09 AM
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a resident of Crescent Park
on Apr 25, 2012 at 8:18 am
This article is obviously wrong. "We Can Do better Palo Alto" has stated on many occasions that PAUSD is failing economically disadvantaged students and no amount of data can fault their conclusion.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Apr 25, 2012 at 8:27 am
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 25, 2012 at 10:29 am
Forget college! Become a paramedic...takes about one year. Then become a Firefighter. With salary and overtime, make $150K+ per year! My brother did.
a resident of Gunn High School
on Apr 25, 2012 at 10:32 am
I hope Caucasian (sp?) and Asian students were included in this data.
a resident of another community
on Apr 25, 2012 at 10:39 am
If they are low income, then they were included in this count. Not all low income kids are Black or Hispanic.
a resident of Midtown
on Apr 25, 2012 at 11:12 am
It's a pleasure to read that Palo Alto schools are doing much better than the average in helping low-income students to improve their future prospects by getting into college.
I can't believe, with such an interesting story, the first two comments were about a grammatical error. Too much time on their hands, maybe?
a resident of Downtown North
on Apr 25, 2012 at 3:54 pm
If students go to college and take majors that teach them a useful skill, e.g. engineering, physics, medicine, etc., then it would be worthwhile to get advanced schooling. Piling on student loans to reach an academic dead end has been well documented. Too many take literature, English, social studies, economics, art history, etc., where need is limited, mostly in the teaching professions.
The Joel is right. Learn a useful trade like plumbing, electrical repair, auto mechanics, which require a few years of apprentice training, and you're paid during the learning period! The need for those skills will increase in the future and the pay can be very good.
a resident of Crescent Park
on Apr 25, 2012 at 3:58 pm
"Forget college! Become a paramedic...takes about one year. Then become a Firefighter. With salary and overtime, make $150K+ per year! My brother did."
We need to get firefighter pay down to market level (about 60K per year I suppose with a nice 401K match instead of a ridiculous, unsustainable pension) so that we don't lose the next Google guy to this line of thinking. That and the fact that it's irresponsible to throw our tax dollars away catering to well connected special interests.
a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 25, 2012 at 4:23 pm
To Micheal from Crescent Park,
My brother-inlaw is a police officer who made over $226k last year with salary and overtime. Throw in a nice pension at the end of 30 years. Micheal, life is not fair...you need to deal with it. Oh, don't worry about the next google guy...not everyone can be a Firefighter or police officer.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Apr 25, 2012 at 5:26 pm
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a resident of Another Palo Alto neighborhood
on Apr 25, 2012 at 6:16 pm
To Mary,
So there are no "people of color" that are firefighters or police officers. So tired of the "race card" being toss down.
a resident of Palo Alto High School
on Apr 25, 2012 at 8:13 pm
Mary, I agree with Joel on this particular issue. This is not the time to play the race card because anyone can apply to be a firefighter or police officer. In NYC, the percentage of African American officers (in the total force) is going up and has been for the past few years. And all firemen and police officers are subject to the same benefits and gains. Sacramento's fire department chief, Ray Jones (2010), is black (I don't know if he's still the head, however, I'd like to assume he is). Hispanics, many of whom are also low income, make up more (percentage-wise) than their population in the NYC police force (or at least they did in 2009).
Also, I think that Joel said "Life is not fair" in response to Michael's mention of the "ridiculous, unsustainable pension" aka the difference between public and private sectors. The US is not the only country to have a salary difference, just look at Europe. It has little to do with race....
I apologize if this sounds too critical, I just wanted to express my opinion on the subject. I hope it's not too harsh, I didn't mean it to be that way.
a resident of East Palo Alto
on Apr 25, 2012 at 8:33 pm
So what passes as low income in Palo Alto these days?
a resident of Old Palo Alto
on Apr 25, 2012 at 9:18 pm
This document shows current family income guidelines for the federal Free and Reduced Price Lunch Program: Web Link
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Decided to download UWO over the weekend, and it really harks back to the original NES cartridges (which I still have) of Uncharted Waters. I was pleasantly surprised to see how many features from the original actually exist in the online game in some fashion.
Would like some advice from those who are playing it, though. Is there any real way to seriously handicap a new player with regards to selected a job or a skill (in other words, is there some way I can screw up badly enough to where it makes more sense to just start over)?
Reason I ask is that there seems to be so many behind-the-scenes details with regards to stats and skills, it's somewhat difficult to get an initial bearing. On school chat, several (alleged) veterans asserted that the Escape skill is a waste of a skill slot, especially considering the amount of skills I can learn is limited. However, I use Escape during every single ambush or encounter I'm in, because I'm a trade trainee and have no battle skills. Therefore... for me, Escape seems pretty valuable.
The tutorial is a bit disjointed and not always easy to follow, but I did finish all 3 of the beginner schools in Venice. I then decided to wander a bit just to see things, and I can see the game could be a major time investment. There is quite a bit of content, and I haven't even left the upper Mediterranean. But while the gameplay and the community seem friendly enough to newbies, the learning curve is pretty steep just to figure out any sort of efficient gameplay planning. Using trade as an example, I started as a trade job noob in Venice, which sells glassware as its specialty... and every town that's not a mind-numbing distance away from Venice (Ragusa, Ancona, Syracuse, etc) always has hugely inflated prices for glassware, so making an actual profit from trading early on is challenging, unless I spend an entire 3-hour play session sailing across the Med and back. I'm not complaining about the travel time - more I feel like I'm "doin it rong". I'm now generally doing merchant guild "quests" instead for cash, and maybe that's what I'm supposed to do.
Curious if I'm just on the wrong track with my thinking of how this game generally operates. Change jobs to Adventure to at least get off the ground (no pun)? I'm happy to grind out trade, but concerned I'm wasting a lot of time doing it pointlessly.
Have to say I'm also a new player(only playing a week or so) but as far as i can tell there doesn't seem to be anyway to screw up your char severely. I think you'll get 50 skill points max at some point(plus some from aids and the cs if you want them) and you can always forget skills if you find you don't need them. You can also switch jobs to get the 3 that aren't available to buy. PPL may be saying escape is useless as a skill for later on when you get better battle skills and money to buy the consumable to use instead.
I also wandered about after doing the 3 noob schools before moving to intermediate(trading, exploring etc.) I think it helped to move into a flute before doing them. Have a bit more info in the inter school that may help you, also more cash as final reward(total for all 3 inter finals is 530,000 if i remember correctly(150 for adv, 80 for merch and 300 for mari)
Not sure about the glassware(made an adv), but have been doing some basic trading in northern europe reasonably well even without any trade skills. Find it rather annoying there doesn't seem to be any real way to find out if I'll make any profit until i get to a market trader to sell stuff. Although the uncharted waters wiki helps a little I think it's a case of experience here. So maybe try trading other things until you get to a big enough ship that the distance for glassware doesn't matter.
I would suggest that rather than just trading pick up quests from the mediators and buy some goods to sell aswell maybe.
About the only way to mess up a character badly enough that it's easier to just start over is if you attack another player when you're really low level and win the battle, so that you get flagged as a pirate. Sailing far, far away from where you have any port permits could also be a problem when you're very low level. Other than that, you'd really have to be aggressively stupid to break a character, as it's not the sort of thing you could do by accident.
Don't worry about picking the "wrong" job. You're not locked into a single job forever. You can and should change your job many times. You need a job card to change to a new job for the first time, but you can change to any job you've previously held without a card. It costs 20 times as much to change jobs if you don't have a card than if you do (and you can use a card for subsequent switches), but switching to the beginner jobs is cheap (typically 10k-20k) even without a card. A lot of jobs cost around 1.5m to switch without a card, and you can do that now and then, but probably don't want to do that every day. For a job that costs 16m without a card, you might want to go get a card even if you want to switch back.
I'd recommend unlocking all of the beginner jobs, just to get access to a lot of skills. You'll get some job cards from the tutorials, and then can get more from quests in the major cities of Europe. When you get a beginner job card, you might as well just use it immediately to unlock a job that you haven't previously held, and if you didn't want the other job, switch back immediately afterwards. This probably isn't obvious to a new player, but the beginner adventuring jobs you want to unlock first are helmsperson, biologist, and excavator (in any order, not necessarily that one).
A job is a collection of favored skills, together with a type (adventuring, merchant, or maritime). One advantage of a skill being favored is that you can buy the skill at half price from any noble, even if the noble doesn't normally offer the skill. Another is that the skill rank can go up to 15 rather than the normal cap of 10. This will eventually be important, but doesn't matter for new players. Most importantly, you gain skill rank at double the normal rate if the skill is favored.
The job type lets you gain experience and fame of the relevant type at double the normal rate. So if you have a merchant job, you'll gain trade fame and trade experience at double the normal rate.
Don't worry too much about taking the "wrong" skills, either. If you decide you took the wrong skill, you can drop it to make room for another. The only skill that you can't drop is your native language (Italian if you started in Venice), and you have that at character creation.
The basic idea is that you figure out what you want to do, and then switch to a job that favors the skills that you're going to gain rank in by doing whatever it is that you want to do. For example, if I'm going to go do geography discoveries, then I'll switch my job to ocean explorer, since it has the recognition and geography skills favored, which are the two that I'll rank by doing geography discoveries. (As a new player, you'd want the helmsperson job for this, though eventually you'll want either ocean explorer or cartographer.) When you decide to switch and go do something else, you switch to a different job that favors the something else that you're going to do.
The escape skill is worthless. I didn't find any clear use for it, but it does make you get crit whenever you get hit. If you want to sail away, then sail away. Don't use the escape skill while you're doing so.
Also, if you're trading or adventuring, you want a fast ship with a small crew. For trading, you want a large ship for a larger cargo hold, and for adventuring, you want a small ship for the increased acceleration. In either case, you're really not built for battle, so you want to run away if attacked. Ships that you can see may attack you; once your maritime level gets high enough, they'll stop. You'll sometimes get attacked by ships that you can't see ("ambush"), but this won't happen if you have the caution skill active. That's the skill you want if you're trying to avoid battle. You can also buy ceasefire permits, which will instantly end any battle with an NPC if you're in an area that was in the game at launch.
Don't get caught up in thinking you need to level this or that particular item purchasing skill (e.g., spice trading). There are two reasons to get those skills: so that you can buy raw materials for crafting faster, and so that you can buy goods for high value trading routes faster. The latter basically means spice trading for spices from Southeast Asia, and that's about it. El Oriente will change this, I think; art trading might be the new valuable one, but I'm not sure. You can also buy goods without having the relevant trading skill; it just lets you buy fewer at a time without the skill.
The best online data source for the game is the Japanese wiki:
The problem is that it's in Japanese. Google translate can mostly fix that, though the word order is often scrambled from what it would be in English.
I appreciate the time you took to craft a response here. Netmarble should really consider putting you on the marketing payroll given the information you've already provided in this forum.
Now that I know I can undo any minor stupid decisions I make I'll just stick with it for now. Escape has been useful in one instance - without it, I tend to get run down by rowing ships, and if they outnumber me, I have no chance. I got 90% of my cash looted by an NPC (about 200k) and they took my special ship item too. I know 200k isn't much later on, but at the beginning it was pretty devastating, especially since they carved my hull in half and killed my entire crew. I did have a lifesaver, so I spent 30 minutes limping back to port with 1 sailor on board, but the "death penalty" suggests this is a game where one will do everything humanly possible to avoid risk. Good simulation; somewhat bad for raw "fun". It was virtually the equivalent of starting over.
Originally posted by Quizzical
This probably isn't obvious to a new player, but the beginner adventuring jobs you want to unlock first are helmsperson, biologist, and excavator (in any order, not necessarily that one).
I'd argue this comment applies to everything in the game. Nothing is really obvious to new players. Again, that's interesting game design, because it means you need to spend quite a bit of time through trial-and-error and chatting to figure out how just about every game convention works. Downside, I'd wager, is that the game's burnout rate is pretty high among new players.
When you say "switch jobs", are you referring to the "guild booklets" or whatever I got from the three intro tutorials? I have some items in my inventory that don't have a clear purpose, so honestly, I wasn't sure how to even go about switching jobs. Plus, right now my job is something like "Trade trainee" - it's not specific like helmsperson or biologist. I'll need to go wander Venice and see if I can figure that out. Some of these things remind me vaguely of games like Wurm, where you have these nested menus hiding what you're really looking for. It took me almost 15 minutes just to figure out how to equip a new ship - it's not intuitive that I have to talk to an NPC to switch which ship I'm using, for example.
Originally posted by ThreeSixty
I got 90% of my cash looted by an NPC (about 200k) and they took my special ship item too. I know 200k isn't much later on, but at the beginning it was pretty devastating, especially since they carved my hull in half and killed my entire crew.
I wasn't sure how to even go about switching jobs. Plus, right now my job is something like "Trade trainee" - it's not specific like helmsperson or biologist. I'll need to go wander Venice and see if I can figure that out.
If you had insurance, you can go to a bank and they'll give you back the money that was taken from you.
Go to a guild office of the job type you want to switch to and talk to the guild master. One of the options is to switch jobs.
Alas, I'm on team Eddie here, I couldn't stick with it either. Still great write-ups and advice here though, thanks. I just don't have the huge amount of time this game is going to require, and I don't have the patience to google-translate a Japanese wiki anymore. Just getting too old. For the college student gaming on a Pell Grant, it'd be great - there's a massive amount of content to the game.
I popped into POTBS just out of curiosity (it's free and I have a metric ton of Station Cash), but that wasn't even remotely fun. First time I shot up a ship's crew assuming it would disable an enemy, then went after another, came back and found out all of the crew I'd shot up had magically "healed"... no. Not playing a game where it looks like ships tank, dps and heal, sorry SOE.
The trick is to play UWO while you're doing something else at the same time during the less active parts. Start sailing, then tab to a different window and read something or whatever.
It's the same skill that you need to play ATITD. Maybe that's why it's a niche game.
Originally posted by eddieg50
Yea I played a few weeks ago, not a bad game , it does take a long time to get places and I did not find combat to be fun. I went through both the beginning and intermediate school before becoming a bit bored and am now trying Pirates of the burning sea
I played Pirates of the burning sea for a few months and it was a great game. Only thing that I didn't like was the wind gauge has no effect upon ship battles like it should. Don't get me wrong, but the mechanics are messed up, there is no wind advantage because of how they coded it. I liked how Sid Meyers Pirates made it so you had to use the wind properly during battles in order to win.
Attempted to download client or test game with play now. Links took me to: http://uc1.gamestotal.com/p/?/en/game/&ref=adshizmoo
Which is a space based game.
So I ask where can I locate this game for review?
Originally posted by WildCardz
Attempted to download client or test game with play now. Links took me to: http://uc1.gamestotal.com/p/?/en/game/&ref=adshizmoo
Which is a space based game.
So I ask where can I locate this game for review?
you need to download the oggplanet launcher first then get it through there now i think(I got it through netmarble so am not completely sure).
P.S. I didn't read any any dodgy clauses in their terms & pp if that's an issue, but u should still probably check for yourself.


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First, the Court acknowledged that it had improperly incorporated issues pertaining to "whether" and "why" individual employees may have missed breaks (a purely damages question) into its predominance analysis, rather than focusing on whether the plaintiff's theory of liability was amenable to common adjudication. See Slip Opinion, at 18-19 ("In analyzing the rest break claims, the Brinker court also expressly rejected this court's reasoning that evidence showing some employees took rest breaks and other employees were offered rest breaks but declined to take them made class certification inappropriate."). As explained by the Court, "Brinker instructs that in ruling on the predominance issue in a certification motion, the court must focus on the plaintiff's theory of recovery and assess the nature of the legal and factual disputes likely to be presented and determine whether individual or common issues predominate." See Slip Opinion, at 30 (citing Brinker, 53 Cal.4th at p. 1025.). Citing to the Second District's analysis in Jaimez v. Daiohs USA, Inc., 181 Cal.App.4th 1286 (2010), the Court concluded that it was error to deny certification of a theory challenging a uniform company policy/practice based on employee declarations submitted by the employer attesting that breaks were received:
Reversing the trial court's order, the Jaimez court found the trial court "misapplied" the law regarding class certification by "focusing on the potential conflicting issues of fact or law on an individual basis, rather than evaluating 'whether the theory of recovery advanced by the plaintiff is likely to prove amenable to class treatment.' " (Jaimez, supra, 181 Cal.App.4th at p. 1299.) The court stated that "had the trial court focused on the correct criteria, it would have necessarily found the [defendant's] declarations, while identifying individual effects of policies and practices that may well call for individual damages determinations, nevertheless confirm the predominance of common legal and factual issues that make the case more amenable to class treatment." (Id. at p. 1300.) The court further held "[t]he fact that individual [workers] may have different damages does not require denial of the class certification motion." (Id. at p. 1301.)
As in Jaimez, there were common factual and legal issues in this case regarding whether the employees were permitted to take meal and rest breaks and whether they were compensated for missed meal and rest breaks. The evidence also showed that the nature of Networkers' scheduling and work requirements made it difficult for employees to take required rest and meal breaks. Focusing on the employees' allegations that the employer's companywide employment practices violated state law, the Jaimez court found the fact that the evidence may disclose that not all employees missed a meal or rest break does not mean that individual issues would predominate on the liability issues. (Jaimez, supra, 181 Cal.App.4th at pp. 1300-1301.) Applying the principles set forth in Brinker, we reach the same conclusion in this case.Slip Opinion, at 32-33.
Second, the Court also acknowledged error in finding that a theory alleging an employer failed to maintain any meal and/or rest break policy was uncertifiable due to individualized issues of waiver. As explained by the Court, Brinker made clear that an employer is legally foreclosed from asserting the defense of waiver unless and until it establishes that it complied with its minimal obligation to communicate its authorization for breaks to employees. See Slip Opinion, at 30. Based thereon, a theory alleging that the employer failed to meet its threshold obligation in the first instance necessarily presented a uniform issue suitable for class treatment even if some employees claimed that they always received their breaks:
On plaintiffs' class certification motion, it was undisputed that: (1) Networkers did not have a policy permitting or authorizing meal or rest breaks for the proposed class members; (2) Networkers did not know whether these workers took the required breaks; and (3) Networkers did not maintain any records reflecting when (or if) the workers took meal or rest breaks. The evidence also showed that after Networkers formally converted these workers to "employee" status, it did not implement any rest or meal break policy, or give any notification to the workers about their entitlement to take meal or rest breaks.
Under Brinker, plaintiffs' legal challenge to these uniform practices involve common factual and legal issues that are amenable to class treatment. "An employer is required to authorize and permit the amount of [rest and meal] break time[s] called for under the wage order for its industry. If it does not . . . it has violated the wage order and is liable." (Brinker, supra, 53 Cal.4th at p. 1033.) Claims alleging a "uniform policy consistently applied to a group of employees is in violation of the wage and hour laws are of the sort routinely, and properly, found suitable for class treatment." (Ibid.)
Networkers argues, and we agreed in our initial opinion, that the issue of which employees had missed breaks and how many breaks were missed and whether those missed breaks were the result of Networkers' lack of a break policy was highly dependent on the testimony of each plaintiff, essentially requiring a mini-trial on each class member's case to determine the eligibility for recovery and the amount of damages to which each plaintiff would be entitled.
However, this argument conflicts with Brinker's clear holdings that for meal breaks, an employer has an obligation to relieve its employee of all duty, permit the employee to take an uninterrupted 30-minute break, and to not impede or discourage the employee from doing so. (Brinker, supra, 53 Cal.4th at p. 1040.) Similarly, an employer has an obligation to provide a rest break, and if the employer fails to do so, the employer cannot claim the employee waived the break. (Id. at p. 1033.) Under the logic of these holdings, when an employer has not authorized and not provided legally-required meal and/or rest breaks, the employer has violated the law and the fact that an employee may have actually taken a break or was able to eat food during the work day does not show that individual issues will predominate in the litigation.Slip Opinion, at 28 and 30-31.